Naga Chaitanya says he was ‘treated like a criminal’ after divorce from Samantha: ‘I come from a broken home…’

Talking astir the disapproval that helium received connected societal media, Naga Chaitanya told Vamshi Kurapati connected the Raw Talks with VK podcast, “When we announced our separation, we enactment retired a station saying we had our ain reasons, and we were moving on. What different mentation is really required? I hoped that the assemblage and media would respect our petition for privacy. But it conscionable became headlines, talking points, gossip, and basically, entertainment.”

Naga Chaitanya argued that if helium goes connected to accidental thing else, that, too, would go news. “That video byte would springiness emergence to much articles, much gossip, etc… Even now, years aft we went our abstracted ways, determination would beryllium interviews wherever idiosyncratic would effort to provoke an reply retired of me. See, I person moved connected with grace, and truthful has Samantha. We person truthful overmuch respect for each other. Whatever happened was for the betterment of us. I person repeated this galore times, and yet, the questions support connected coming. So, however bash I adjacent effort to enactment a afloat halt to thing that I haven’t written.”

Asking his detractors to bid their absorption connected amended things, including their ain lives, Naga Chaitanya said, “Spread positivity instead. See, I person travel retired of the marriage, gained strength, recovered emotion again, and moved on. Also, immoderate happened successful my beingness isn’t thing that hasn’t happened successful anyone else’s life. So, wherefore americium I treated similar a criminal?”

Naga Chaitanya’s parents — histrion Nagarjuna and Lakshmi Daggubati — separated erstwhile helium was a child, and remarried afterwards. Adding that divorcement and breakups are alternatively delicate topics for him, the Laal Singh Chaddha histrion said, “I travel from a breached family. I cognize that experience. Ahead of breaking a relationship, I would deliberation astatine slightest 1000 times astir it due to the fact that I genuinely recognize the repercussions. Breaking the matrimony was a communal decision, and we went our ain ways. Of course, I consciousness atrocious that it happened, but everything happens for a reason. I judge it is up to you to physique yourself and support progressing. You volition find the close way soon.”

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Naga Chaitanya, who joined Samantha successful 2018, announced his separation from the histrion successful October 2021. He precocious joined histrion Sobhita Dhulipala successful 2024. On the acting front, Naga Chaitanya was seen successful this Friday’s release, Thandel, directed by Chandoo Mondeti and starring his Love Story co-star Sai Pallavi arsenic the different lead.